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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Sometime a couple of months ago, Rakesh came up with the concept of creating a patriotic video for IIMB. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara was the last rage, and he felt it was maybe time to try out a new one. So we set out working on ARR's Jana Gana Mana.

The videos were shot in a single day - surprisingly almost everything went off well that day. We had fixed time slots for the shooting for everyone - from the director of the insti, to the housekeeping staff. We simply couldn't afford to get delayed anywhere given the packed schedule. And we also had to tug along the heavy camera, monitor, tripod, blowers et al and run all around the campus. Was a verrrrry hectic day! Luckily had a good cameraman - Mr Rafiq who understood exactly what I wanted. And even more luckily have a very devoted wife who wanted to be the 'squirrel' and ended up being a lot more!

Anyway, here is the final product of my first 'professional' attempt :)

@umeshkarthy..He he.. glad you think so :P But the fact was that this was an initiative by the alumni assn.. So had insti level support in getting people from the helm :)Thanks for your compliments da.. And I guess the guy you are referring to is Mani..

@kavity..Thanks! :)And am pretty worried I'll soon be over at your end, and will possibly be commenting like this in one of our juniors' blogs :(

@sangeethan..Thanks for the insightful comments that you gave on chat machi.. Don't think many would have seen it in that way!

@Arun..Thanks a lot!! :)

@kp..He he.. that was directly lifted from the original video's theme :D

@mouli..Aug 15 was a very memorable day for me, not for IIMB :D Felt like I was back in Tech, doing all this multimedia stuff..PSG has become a part of every great thing I do da.. Just love that place!

@sathya..If the 'mega-star actor' decides to skip shooting despite signing the call-sheet, I am not impressed by his professionalism :P

anna gethu . if u could also have composed some music of urs entirely by vishy video a irundhurukum also i noticed one peculiar thing na for the voice of asha bhonsle all three are singing while for the rest it is only one among the group. Any spl reasons for that?

@jeff..music ellaam compose panna theriyadhu da enakku.. though I have a very close friend who can do that.. nice thought for the next work :) thanks!As for the number of people singing the song, I wanted only one person to sing.. But when having so many different people of different cadres, a lot of other considerations come in, and I had to intentionally become inconsistent..Very observant! :)